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differ from that determined by the test laid down in the United 
States Pharmacopoeia or Xational Formulary. 
Second. If its standard or purity fall below the professed standard 
or quality under which it is sold. 
An article, in case of drugs, shall also be deemed to be misbranded : 
First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the dis- 
tinctive name of another article. 
Second. If the contents of the package as originally put up shall 
have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have 
beon placed in such package, or if the package fail to bear a statement 
on the label of the quantity or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, 
opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis 
inclica. chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or any derivative or prepara- 
tion of any of such substances contained therein. — Am. J. Pharm., 
Phila., 1906. v. 78. pp. 128—132. 
TCiley, H. TT.. discusses the use of preservatives in foods and the 
need for legislation regulating the production and sale of foods and 
drugs. He quotes at some length from an official document entitled. 
** Hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 
of the House of Bepresentatives on the Pure Food bills H. B. 30H. 
1527. 7018. 12071. 13086. 13853. and 13859.”— Ibid., pp. 153-169. 
Beal. J. H.. presents a synopsis, with comments, of the principal 
provisions of the Federal Pure Food and Drugs Law. — Proc. Am. 
Pharm. Ass.. 1906. v. 51. pp. 202-215. 
Patch.. E. L.. believes that this legislation is along the lines of a 
higher civilization and greater public safety. — Ibid., v. 51. p. 331. 
An editorial discussing laws governing the quality of drugs points 
out that the Food and Drugs Act of June 30. 1906. has been indorsed 
by all branches of the drug trade and that apart from the imperfec- 
tions of our pharmacopceia which are expected will be corrected no 
difficulties will be encountered in the enforcement of the law. — Drug. 
Circ. & Chern. Gaz., A. Y., 1906. v. 50. pp. 387-388. 
Schimmel & Co., in discussing the Food and Drugs Law. June 30. 
1906, say : 
This kind of legislation is surely in the right direction, and it is to be hoped 
that said law will be rigidly enforced. The standard for raw materials enter- 
ing into food products, drugs, and medicines to be imported into the 17. S. 
will surely be raised to a preeminent degree, and it is to be expected that the 
employment of pure essential oil and related articles which we have advocated 
in these reports for so many years will now become predominant. — Semi-Ann. 
Rep., 1906, Oct.-Xov., p. 7. 
An editorial discusses the sections of the Food and Drugs Law, 
referring particularly to drugs, and says : 
Properly enforced, it is capable of bringing about great good to the drug 
trade and to the public. Unwisely executed, it may prove even a greater 
nuisance than the war revenue law of 1898. — Xew Idea.. Detroit, 1906, v. 28. 
pp. 166-168. 
